Front Cover -- Ecological Justice and the Extinction Crisis: Giving Living Beings their Due -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introducing Ecological Justice -- Linking debates in environmental ethics and political theory -- Why distributive justice? -- Practical usefulness -- Theoretical context -- Structure of the book -- 2 Political Non-Ranking Biocentrism -- Political biocentrism -- Life and moral considerability -- Needs and interests -- Non-ranking biocentrism -- Extensionism -- Non-ranking moral significance
Implications for theorising about justice -- Notes -- 3 The Community of Justice -- Circumstances of justice -- The traditional circumstances of justice -- The problem-context -- Never-ending conflicts -- The conception of justice -- The community of justice -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- 4 The Currency of Distributive Justice -- Different interpretations of ecological space -- A new definition -- Ecological space as a currency of justice -- Operationalisation -- Notes -- 5 The Principles of Distributive Justice -- Scarcity of ecological space
Demands of justice under conditions of moderate scarcity -- Environmental justice principle(s) -- Ecological justice principle(s) -- Different levels of scarcity and the demands of justice -- Significant scarcity -- Severe scarcity -- Sustainability -- Further implications and considerations -- Entitlements and duties -- Environmental virtue ethics -- Notes -- 6 Ecological Justice and the Capabilities Approach -- Concerns -- Dignity and nonhumans -- The predation problem -- Benefits of a more limited account -- Notes -- 7 Biodiversity Loss: An Injustice? -- The recipients of justice
The non-existence problem -- The relevance of anthropogenic causation -- Biodiversity versus bio-proportionality -- Population sizes -- Notes -- 8 Who Owns the Earth? -- Historical and conceptual background -- Against original ownership: a green critique -- Original acquisition -- Owning living beings -- An unowned earth -- Notes -- 9 Visions of Just Conservation -- The proposal -- The critique -- One problem, several perspectives -- The justice landscape of habitat conservation -- Just global distribution of habitat -- Just implementation -- A distributively just compromise? -- Notes
Acknowledgements -- 10 Outlook for Implementation -- Responsibility and citizenship -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary
As the biodiversity crisis deepens, Anna Wienhues sets out radical environmental thinking and action to respond to the threat of mass species extinction.